Lecture 4 - city and empire

Question 1

Eclogues

Answer 1

soft romanticism about the countryside.

Question 2

Founding towns

Answer 2

Greek colonisation in the Archaic period. Cyrene, Syracuse. This is expansion, not the creation of an empire.

Question 3

Alexander the Great

Answer 3

Empire founded on towns, most of which were already there, but he did found at least 20 towns. Most named after himself.

Question 4

What counts as a city?

Answer 4

Villages, strongholds and a country settlement are places which have none of the adornments of a town, but are lived in by the common people.

Question 5

Some city criteria

Answer 5

Local admin, religious buildings, trade, entertainment, water and sanitation, standards of housing.